![[Warren Fisher], Report of a Committee on the System of Appointment in the Colonial Office and the Colonial Services, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [Cmd. 3554] (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1930)](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978113866/9781138660984.jpg "[Warren Fisher], Report of a Committee on the System of Appointment in the Colonial Office and the Colonial Services, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [Cmd. 3554] (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1930)")
ABSTRACT
The territories which fall within the sphere of the Colonial Office cover an area of about two million square miles – nearly twice the size of British India – and contain a population of nearly fifty millions – nearly twice the total population of the oversea Dominions. Except for some 160,000 square miles with four millions of people, these territories lie wholly within the tropics.
